Dear Miriam, I am German ...

Dear Miriam,

I am German water-well engineer and spent the half of my life in water supply projects, research, protection of aquifers, management and through different organizations like voluntary service, industrial unconventional oil and gas, mining, EU-HCP etc. emergency water supply for refugee camps, creation and reinforcement of several oasis, innovative and small scaled groundwater infiltration (artificial groundwater recharge) in floodable Wadis and dried-off river beds (including villagers participation) and I ended up with the constrcuction of a helicopter transportable drilling rig which is able to drill down to 250m in any kind of geological formations and: my actual and most important innovation is an international operative and  mobile waterwell drillng school. This was created (with many requests) due to the fact, that only rare expwerts are able to drill a water borehole. Everything is theoretically explainable, but in reality, in the field, not reliable and possible to realize. The hundreds of written, high standarized books and manuals, are for those who are standing beside the operation (as supervisor) and giving certain advises, due to their role, and it is the drilling operator, who has be used to it: and also be couraged enough to say: "No my friend, if we do as you have readen, the hole will collpse, the well will produce sand, the well will alterate in a few month etc. etc.

And most of drillers are not analphabetics, but transitioning the methods from reading into practizing, is another important act. In Germany, there is a 3.1/2 years apprenticeship required, before touching a rig, before tdealing with groundwatger. There is a reason for it, isn't it?

So, I sat down and spent my time to create a formal training-practizing-training sequenced in school lessons and to learn-on-the-job. In other words: The training comes from somebody, who knows exactly what is happening in the driling operator's mind.

2 weeks to become professional. Isn't this innovative? A gap to fill? How many million €'s and $'s were spent on failed water supply projects, never reported, never considered. And the beificiaries are running back to the water source, moving house into other regions, ending up in the suburbs of cities, because at least, there is potable water to find...it seems that the circle is closed here....

 

Kind Regards

Ulf